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Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ἐλειφὰς ὁ Θαιμανείτης λέγει

Μὴ πολλάκις σοι λελάληται ἐν κόπῳ;

ἰσχὺν δὲ όημάτων σου τίς ὑποίσεις

εἰ γὰρ σὺ ἐνουθέτησας πολλούς,

καὶ χεῖρας ἀσθενοῦς παρεκάλεσας,

ἀσθενοῦντάς τε ἐξανέστησας ῥήμασιν,

γόνασίν τε ἀδυνατοῦσιν θάρσος περιέθηκας·

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ωῦν δὲ ἥκει ἐπὶ σέ πόνος καὶ ἥψατό σου, σὺ ἐσπούδασας.5

πότερον οὐχ ὁ φόβος σού ἐστιν ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ,

καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς σου καὶ ἡ κακία τῆς ὁδοῦ σου;

μνήσθητι οὖν τίς καθαρὸς ὧν ἀπώλετο,

ἢ πότε ἀληθινοὶ ὁλόριζοι ἀπώλοντο

καθʼ ὃν τρόπον ἴδον τοὺς ἀροτριῶντας τὰ ἄτοπα·

οἱ δὲ σπείροντες αὐτὰ ὀδύνας θεριοῦσιν ἑαυτοῖς.

ἀπὸ προστάγματος Κυρίου ἀπολοῦνται,

ἀπὸ δὲ πνεύματος ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ἀφανισθήσονται.

σθένος λέοντος, φωνὴ δὲ λεαίνης,

γαυρίαμα δέ δρακόντων ἐσβέσθη.

μυρμηκολέων ὤλετο· παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βοράν,

σκύμνοι δὲ λεόντων ἔλιπον ἀλλήλους.

εἰ δέ τι ῥῆμα ἀληθινὸν ἐγεγόνει ἐν λόγοις σου,¶

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οὐθὲν ἄν σοι τούτων κακὸν ἀπήντησεν.

πότερον οὐ δέξεταί μου τὸ οὖς ἐξαίσια παρʼ αὐτοῦ

φόβος δὲ καὶ ἠχὼ νυκτερινή.

ἐπιπίπτων φόβος ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπους,

φρίκη μοι συνήντησεν καὶ τρόμος,

καὶ μεγάλως μου τὰ ὀστᾶ διέσεσεν,

καὶ πνεῦμα ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου ἐπῆλθεν,

ἔφριξαν δέ μου τρίχες καὶ σάρκες.

ἀνέστην, καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνων·

ἴδον, καὶ οὐκ ἦν μορφὴ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου.

ἀλλ᾿ ἣ αδραν καὶ φωνὴν ἤκουον

Τί γάρ ; μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου

ἣ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἄμεμπτος ἀνήρ;

εἰ κατὰ παίδων αὐτοῦ οὐ πιστεύει,

κατὰ δὲ ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ σκολιόν τι ἐπενόησεν·

τοὺς δὲ κατοικοῦντας οἰκίας πηλίνας,

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ἐξ ὦν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πηλοῦ ἐσμεν,

ἔπαισεν αὑτοὺς σητὸς τρόπον.

καὶ ἀπὸ πρωίθεν μέχρι ἑσπέρας οὐκέτι εἰσίν,

παρὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς βοηθῆσαι ἀπώλοντο.

ἐνεφύσησεν γὰρ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐξηράνθησαν,

ἀπώλοντο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν αὐτοὺς σοφίαν.

Job. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. United States. 2017.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

Ἰώβ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 4.1 focus

Τὸν δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη Ἐλιφᾶς Θαιμανίτης·

Ἦν τοι πειρώμεθα λέγειν, σὺ δὲ μή τι χολωθῇς.

Τίς κε σιωπήσειεν, ἐρητύσειέ τε γλῶσσαν,

Ὅς ῥ᾽ ἔπε᾽ ἔασιν οἷσιν ἀκόσμιά τε πολλά σ᾽ ἀκέσῃς;

Θυμοδακὴς γὰρ μῦθος, ἐπώτρυνας δέ με εἰπεῖν.

Καὶ σὺ μὲν ὅου ποτ᾽ ἔησθα διδάσκαλος ἔμμεναι ἄλλων,

Πολλοῖσίν τ᾽ ἄνδρεσσιν ἐνέσταξας μένος ἠΰ·

Μήτι σέο πινυτῇ τε, καὶ ἐς φρένα θυμὸν ἀγείρας·

Χερσίν τ᾽ ἀβληχρῇσι βίην καὶ κάρτος ἐνῆκας·

Ὅς δ᾽ ὀλιγηπελέων ἤδη πεσέεσθαι ἔμελλε,

Τὸν δ᾽ ἐπέεσσι τεοῖσι τάχ᾽ ἔμπεδον αὖθις ἔδωκας

Ἐστάμεναι κρατερῶς, καὶ ὑπόρροθος ἦσθα πόδεσσιν·

Γούνασί τ᾽ ἠπεδανοῖσιν ὑφ᾽ ἕρμα καὶ ἄλκαρ ἔθηκας.

Νῦν δ᾽ ἐπεὶ ὅου κακὸν ἦλθε, καὶ ἥψατό σεο ὀλίγον τι·

Οὐδὲ σὺ τετλάμεναι δύνααι, λιγύς περ ἐὼν ἀγορητής·

Ἀλλά σοι αὐτῷ θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι ὀρίνθη,

Σή τε βίη λέλυται, κραδίη δέ τοι ἔνδον ὑλακτεῖ.

Σχέτλιε, πῇ δή τοι μένος οἴχεται, ὃ πρὶν ἔχεσκες;

Οὔτίς τοι νόος ἐστὶ θεουδὴς, ᾧ σὺ πέποιθας,

Εὐσεβίη, θάρσος τε, δικαιοσύνη τε, καὶ ἐλπίς;

Ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε νῦν, εἴπέρ τι παλαιγενέων κλέα φωτῶν

Γινώσκεις, προτέρων δεδαημένος ἔργ᾽ αἰώνων·

Τῶν νῦν μοι μνῆσαι, καί μοι νημερτὲς ἐνίσπε·

Τίς πίστιν ἐσθλὸς ἐών; ἢ πῆ ἀπόλωλε δίκαιος;

Τίς μόρος ἰθυνόῳ πέλεν ἀνέρι; αἴκε δύναιο

Κείνου λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον ἐνισπεῖν, εἴπερ ὄπωπας

Ὀφθαλμοῖσι τεοῖσιν, ἢ ἄλλου μῦθον ἄκουσας.

Ὡς καὶ ἐγὼν ἐνόησα, καὶ ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα,

Ὁπποῖός κ᾽ ἄρετος, τοιόσδ᾽ ἄμητος ἕπησιν.

Οἳ κακὸν ὅου ἀρόωσιν, ὁμῶς κακὸν ἀμήσαντες,

Ἄτην τε σπείροντες ἐοικότα μισθὸν ἄροντο,

Καὶ καρπὸν σπόρῳ ἶσον, ἀτάσθαλοι, οἷς ἔρεξαν.

Ἔφθινται δ᾽ ἄρα τοίγε θεοῦ μάλα χωομένοιο,

Χωομένοιο θεοῦ, ἀνέμῳ ὣς πικρῷ ἀέντος,

Τοῦ γε ἀπὸ ῥινῶν ῥεῖ ἀϋτμὴ, τοὶ δ᾽ ὀλέκονται.

Σμερδαλέῃ βρυχῇ ὠρυομένοιο λέοντος

Ἐσβέσθη, καὶ φθόγγος ἐριβρύχοιο λεαίνης·

Σκύμνων γαμφηλαὶ, ὀλεοί τ᾽ ἐῤῥήχθεν ὀδόντες.

Λιμῷ ὑπ’ ἀργαλέῳ φθινύθει λῖς ἠϋγένειος,

Σίντης, καὶ κρατερῶν ἐσκεδάσθη τέκνα λεόντων.

Λάθρῃ μοί ὡς κλέπτης, κρυφίη φάτις ἄγγελος ἦλθεν,

Τυτθὸν φθεγξαμένου ἐμά τ’ ὤατα δέξατο φωνή.

Νύκτα δ’ ὀρφναίην, ὅτε δ’ εὕδουσι βροτοὶ ἄλλοι,

Πεπταμέναι δ’ πύλαι ἀμυθηνῶν εἰσιν ὀνείρων,

Ἔνθά τε φάσματα πόλλ’ εἰς ἀνδρῶν κράατα βαίνει,

Δὴ τότε γὰρ θεῖός μοι ἐνύπνιον ἦλθεν ὄνειρος.

Ὡς ἴδον, ὡς ῥίγησα φόβῳ ὑπὸ θεσπεσίοιο,

Ἀμφὶ δέ μοι χύτο φρίξ, ὑπὸ δ’ τρόμος ἔλλαβε γυῖα.

Πνεῦμα δέ μοι σχεδὸν ἦλθε παριστάμενον κεφαλῆφιν·

Ὀρθαὶ δὲ τρίχες ἔσαν ἐνὶ κρυεροῖσι μέλεσσι·

Ταρβήσαντος ἐμεῦ· μάλα γὰρ χλωρὸν δέος ᾕρει.

Ἔστη, οὐδέ πω εἶδος ἔω διακρινέμεν ἄντα,

Ἀλλ’ εἴδωλον ἀμαυρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὄπωπα,

Φθεγξαμένου δ’ ὀλίγῃ ὀπί με πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπεν,

Ἦ ῥά τίς εὐνομίῃσι Θεοῦ περιγίνεται ἀνήρ;

Ἠὲ δικαιότερος βροτὸς ἔσσεται Ἀθανάτοιο,

Ὅς τ’ αὐτὸν ποίησε, καὶ ἔπλασε μηδὲν ἐόντα;

Οὐδ’ ὅγε ἐπουρανίοισι μάλα δμώεσσι πέποιθεν

Ἐν φρεσὶν, οἵ τε οἱ αἰὲν ὑποδρηστῆρες ἔασιν·

Ἀφροσύνην δ’ ἐνόησε καὶ εἰν ἁγνοῖσι νόεσσιν,

Οἵ ῥ’ ἑοὶ Ἄγγελοί εἰσι, καὶ ὀτρηροὶ θεράποντες.

Πῶς οὐκ εἰνὶ βροτοῖς; (ἐπεὶ οὔποτε φῦλον ὁμοῖον

Οὐρανίων τε νοεῖν, χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων τ’ ἀνθρώπων)

Οἵ ῥα πήλινα δώματ’ ἔχουσι, ψαμμοθέλυμνα,

Ἀβλῆχρ’, οὐδενόσωρα, τά τ’ αἰόλαι εὐλαὶ ἔδονται,

Καὶ σῆτες· τοῖς γὰρ μέλλει μέλπηθρα γενέσθαι.

Πρώϊοι ἐξανατέλλουσι, φθίνουσι δὲ πάμπαν

Ἑσπέριοι, τῷ δ’ οὔτις ἀπολλυμένων ἀλεγίζει.

Τοῖσι δὲ κῦδος ἅμα σφιν ἀπώλετο, οἵδε καὶ αὐτοὶ

Πρόχνυ κακῶς σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 4 focus

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

Isn’t your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

It stood still, but I couldn’t discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

’shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Isn’t their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 4.1 focus

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said to him:

[2] If we venture to speak, will you not be angered? Who could keep silent and restrain his tongue, when you are one whose words are many and disorderly, and you would heal them? For the word is heart-biting, and you have urged me to speak.

[3] And you were once a teacher of others, and into many men you have instilled noble strength; Was it by your own wise understanding, and having gathered your spirit into your heart, and with feeble hands you put strength and might?

[4] And him who, already faint, was about to fall, you quickly made stand firm again by your words, and you were a support under his feet; and on weak knees you set a stay and a defense.

[5] But now that evil has come upon you, and it has touched you a little, Nor are you able to endure, though you are a clear-voiced speaker; But your own spirit was stirred within your breast, and your strength is loosed, and your heart within you barks.

[6] Wretch, where indeed has your might gone, which you once had? Is there no god-fearing mind in you, in which you trusted — piety, and courage, and righteousness, and hope?

[7] But come now, if you know anything of the glorious deeds of men of old, having learned the works of former ages— Of these now remind me, and tell me truly— Who, being noble, has faith? Or where has a righteous man perished? What doom befell a man of upright mind? if you could tell of that man's wretched destruction, if indeed you have seen it with your own eyes, or heard the report of another.

[8] As I too have perceived, and have seen with my eyes: whatever sort a man is, such is the harvest that befalls him. Those who plow a wicked thing, having likewise reaped a wicked thing, and sowing Ruin, they carried off a fitting wage, and a fruit equal to their sowing, reckless men, for what they did.

[9] They are destroyed, then, when God is greatly angered — when God is angered — blown as by a bitter wind; from his nostrils a blast rushes out, and they perish.

[10] By the dreadful roar of a roaring lion it was quenched, and the sound of the loud-bellowing lioness; The jaws of the cubs, and the strong teeth were broken.

[11] With grievous hunger the fair-maned lion perishes, the hunter, and the cubs of mighty lions were scattered.

[12] Secretly, as a thief, a hidden word came to me as a messenger, when he had spoken a little; and my ears received the voice.

[13] The dark night, when other mortals sleep, and the gates of the unspeakable dreams are spread open, and where many phantoms come upon the heads of men — then indeed a divine dream came to me in sleep.

[14] As I saw, so I shuddered with fear from the dread thing, and trembling poured around me, and trembling seized my limbs.

[15] And a spirit came near to me, standing by my head. And the hairs stood upright on my shuddering limbs; as I trembled; for pale fear seized me greatly.

[16] It stood still, and I could not yet discern its form face to face, but I beheld a dim phantom with my eyes, and while it spoke, a faint whisper came to me, and it said to me a word: Surely a man is not more righteous than God?

[17] Or shall a mortal be more righteous than the Immortal, who made him and formed him when he was nothing?

[18] Nor does he at all trust even his heavenly servants in his mind, who are always his attendants. And he perceived folly even in his holy minds, who are his angels and diligent servants.

[19] How is it not so among mortals? (since never is the race of heavenly beings and of men who walk on the earth alike to think of) those who have houses of clay, founded on sand, Ablēchros, of no account, which the dappled worms eat, and also moths; For to them it is destined that they become a sport.

[20] In the morning they spring up, and in the evening they wither utterly, and no one of those perishing takes thought for them.

[21] And their glory perished together with them, and these very men perished headlong miserably through their own follies.

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 4.1 focus

Illi autem reſpondens dixit Eliphas Thamanites,

Si te aggrediamur alloqui, tu verò nè iraſcaris.

Quis tacuerit, cohibuerítq; cohibuerítque linguam,

Qui verba auribus ſuis inordinatáq; inordinatáque multáq; multáque audiverit?

Mordax eſt enim ſermo tuus; irritâſti autem me ſic locutus.

Et tu quidem olim profitebaris præceptorem te eſſe aliorum,

Multíq; Multíque hominibus inſtillâſti vim bonam

Conſilio tuo, prudentiâq; prudentiâque, & in animum robur recollegiſti:

Manibus infirmis vim & robur immiſiſti:

Qui autem langueſcens jamjam caſurus erat,

Illi verbis tuis ſtatim firmum rurſus dediſti

Stare fortiter, & adjutor fuiſti pedibus:

Genibúsq; Genibúsque labantibus columen & præſidium ſuppoſuiſti.

Nunc verò poſtquam malum venerit, & tetigerit te tantillũ tantillum

Neque tu tolerare nôſti, diſertus licet ſis orator;

Verùm tibiipſi animus in pectoribus commotus eſt,

Tuǽq; Tuǽque vires ſolutæ ſunt, cor autem tibi intus latrat.

Miſer, quòd nunc tibi confidentia abiit, quam priùs habuiſti?

Hæccine tibi mens eſt religioſa, quâ tu fretus fuiſti,

Pietas, fiduciáq; fiduciáque, & ſinceritas, & ſpes?

Aſt age nunc, ſi priſcorum famam virorum

Nôſti, priorum edoctus geſta ſeculorum,

Eorum jam mihi mentionem fac, & mihi verum dic:

Quis cecidit bonus exiſtens? aut ubi periit juſtus?

Quod fatum rectam-mentem-habentis fuit viri? ſi fortè poſſis

Illius triſte exitium narrare, ſicubi videris

Oculis tuis, aut alterius ſermonem audieris.

Quemadmodum & ego obſervavi, & oculis vidi;

Qualis aratio, talis utique meſſis fuerit:

Qui malum ergo arant, pariter & malum meſſuêre,

Noxămq; Noxămque ſeminantes, convenientem mercedem referunt,

Et fructum ſementi parem, improbi, eò-quòd-taliter fecerunt.

Diſperduntur autem hi Deo valdè iraſcente,

Iraſcente Deo, vento velut acerbè flante,

Ejus enim è naribus ſpirat halitus, hi autem pereunt.

Horrendus fremitus rugientis leonis

Extinctus eſt, & vox horriſonæ leænæ:

Catulorum maxillæ exitialésq; exitialésque fracti ſunt dentes.

Fame gravi conficitur leo bene-barbatus,

Noxius, & fortium diſſipati ſunt catuli leonum.

Clanculum mihi tanquā tanquam fur ſecretus rumor nuncius venit,

Submiſſè loquentem meæ autem aures receperunt vocem.

Noctem per obſcuram, quando dormiunt mortales cæteri,

Apertæ autem portæ debilium ſunt ſomniorum;

Ubi ſpectra multa virorum intrant capita:

Jam tum enim divinum ad me in ſomnis venit ſomnium.

Ut vidi, ut pavi metu præ ingenti!

Me autem circumdedit horror, tremor autem occupavit membra.

Spiritûs verò ad me propè acceſſit aſtans capiti;

Erecti autem crines ſteterunt in frigidis membris

Meis expaveſcentis: valde enim pallidus timor occupavit.

Stetit, nec omnino formam licebat diſcernere coràm,

Tantùm imaginem obſcuram oculis conſpexi;

Loquens autem ſummiſſâ voce dixit mihi.

Quid? an æquitate Deum excellit homo?

Vel an juſtior mortalis erit Immortali,

Qui eum fecit & formavit nihil exiſtentem?

Neque ille cæleſtibus admodum famulis confiſus eſt,

In animo, qui ei ſemper miniſtri ſunt:

Stultitiam autem deprehendit etiam in puris intelligentiis,

Quique ejus Angeli ſunt,& diligentes ſervi. (genus ſimile

Quomodo non in mortalibus? (quandoquidem nunquam

Cæleſtiúm q; que intelligentiarum ac humi repentium homin ũ um)

Qui eti ã am luteas domos tenent, arenoſa-fundamina-habentes,

Debiles, contemnendas, quáſque mobiles vermes edent,

Et tineæ: his enim præda futuræ ſunt.

Matutini exoriuntur, occidunt autem prorſus

Veſpertini, eorum autem nemo pereuntium rationem habet.

Eorum verò gloria unà cum ipſis perit: illi etiam ipſi

Funditus malè ſuâ malitiâ perditi ſunt.

Notes on the current edition

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